Newspapers cover news about the third suicide among killers convicted in a controversial murder case.

Press reviewed by Joanna Najfeld

Virtually all the papers today focus on yesterday's news of the third allegedly suicidal death in connection with the case of abduction and murder of Krzysztof Olewnik, a son of a businessman, tortured and brutally murdered over five years ago, after the family paid ransom to the kidnappers. "Who is murdering the killers of Olewnik?" headlines SUPER EXPRESS on the frontpage. "He took the secret of Olewnik's death to the grave," reads the cover of the FAKT daily. "Secret suicides" is also the lead story of today's DZIENNIK, two other major dailies also run the story on their first pages. Tabloids focus on the reconstruction of the circumstances of the mysterious death, while other papers remind the controversies around the case of Krzysztof Olewnik. The family of the victim has been accusing law enforcement of negligence and insufficient efforts to free Krzysztof Olewnik. Polish President Lech Kaczynski commented that this is a scandal on incredible scale and Justice Minister Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski resigned from his post, following the third suicide among the killers of Krzysztof Olewnik.

"We have half a million paid civil servants and the state is not run properly!" complains the FAKT daily in an article analyzing the costs of Poland's overgrown bureaucracy. Too many bureaucrats are blocking the development of our country and make effective management impossible, hiring more is absurd, one expert told the FAKT daily. The paper lists the shocking numbers describing the Polish democracy, such as: over two hundred thousand local government officials or nearly fifty thousand clerks employed in the Social Security system. The daily also condemns bureaucrats for wasting money on their own luxuries, organizing conferences in exclusive hotels. And most of all, these people are not serving the nation - the state does not provide security, good infrastructure. or a decent health care system, the daily points out.

The American president elect, became a star, even before taking office, writes Piotr Gillert in RZECZPOSPOLITA. There's something in it, if the usually serious and reserved "Washington Post" runs a long frontpage article about how bravely the poor president elect is bearing the hardships of moving from Chicago to the White House, notes the columnist. The tabloid press, which usually criticizes and ridicules VIPs to the point of offending them, treats Obama and his wife like a couple of ideal, half-divine creatures, who do have some very minor faults, but only in order to be able to communicate with humanity. The US embarks on a new journey with a new, unusual president. Where they are going to end up, we shall see, concludes Gillert.